CottonCandyTacos: This is hilarious. I love it.
buddythebear: This looks great, so whoever knows something about Thai food please explain why it’s terrible
jaiboi_ben: PAD THAI
[Part 1 – Pad Thai Prep](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luF8dwCgXyE)
[Part 2 – Making the Sauce](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FVwHuJoAr8)
[Part 3 – Walkthrough](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8errsitJEKk)
**Pad Thai Sauce**
½ Cup Fish Sauce
½ Cup Prepared Tamarind (if you’re not sure wtf i am talking about here, don’t fear, there is more info on this in the videos)
½ Cup Palm Sugar
1 Tsp Chili Flake
Heat this up until the sugar melts.
Taste it – what you want is something that tastes first at first salty, second sour, thirdly sweet, and fourth spicy.
**Soak rice noodles**
1 package rice noodles.
You want medium width rice sticks.
Put them in a bowl and cover with room temperature water.
Soak them for ~20 minutes (or until pliable)
Strain
**Prep your ingredients**
You are cooking this over high heat so you want to get all your ingredients ready beforehand and put them next to the stove before you start cooking. This goes fast and cooking over high heat is intimidating enough without wondering around hastily grabbing stuff.
*Container with some water in it to cool down the pan if anything starts burning on you and declump noodles….which trust me the noodles love to clump.
*A bowl of neutral oil with a spoon
*A container of your Pad Thai sauce with a spoon
*Rice Noodles
*Egg
*Proteins of your choice. Diced into bite sized pieces.
We used tofu and chicken thighs but shrimp is also great. Chicken breasts if you must but i’d never recommend it.
*1 Cup Chopped Scallions (if you are feeling super fancy and authentic find garlic chives, but for the rest of us mere mortals scallions will do just fine)
*¼ Cup Crushed Peanuts
*1-2 TBSP of Mystery Ingredient X
*2 Cups of Bean Sprouts
**Mystery Ingredient X**
Again, if you are feeling *very authentic*, you can go to the asian grocery store and pick up a package of preserved turnips.
I actually bothered to do this. They are pretty great. Very salty and pungent/umami – a little explosion of flavor in your mouth and a great crunchy/pickled texture.
Cut into very small pieces if you are using em though.
If you feeling *even more* authentic you can also add dried shrimp that you pound with a mortar and pestle for that lovely shrimped aroma.
**Walkthrough**
First off, realize this is a dish you cook 1 serving at a time. If you try to cook more than one serving at a time it will come out like shit, a big noodley cluster fuck.
(That crazy mound of plated pad thai we used in the beginning and end of the gif was actually multiple servings that we combined together with the magic editing)
1.Heat up your pan over high heat until its scorching hot.
Add in some oil (canola or vegetable).
Turn on your ventilation because it is so going to smoke a bit (though hopefully not as much as ours did)
2.Add in your protein and brown it.
If you use chicken breasts or shrimp take them out after you brown them so they don’t over cook.
3.Throw in one serving worth of rice noodles, and 4-6 spoonfuls of your sauce.
Cook this for roughly 4 minutes until the noodles become noticeably more limp.
Try one to make sure they are done.
4.Move the noodles to the side.
Add a little oil. Add in your egg.
Scramble and do your best to keep the egg separate from everything else.
5.Throw in your toppings (peanuts, bean sprouts, scallions, preserved turnips, dried shrimp)
You will probably want to add in some water because it is probably a big clumpy noodle ball at this point and it will smooth everything out.
For more info, check out our new youtube channel Couch in the Kitchen that this gif is sourced from. We go into way more detail in the videos than we are able to in this gif!
Full video series on Pad Thai:
[Part 1 – Pad Thai Prep](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luF8dwCgXyE)
[Part 2 – Making the Sauce](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FVwHuJoAr8)
[Part 3 – Walkthrough](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8errsitJEKk)
evilmnky45: Lol that was pretty good.
funnybonzo: You had me right up until the crime of food spilling off the plate took place.
DanielandthePandas: Hey there demons, it’s me, ja boi
PublicFigureX: Skip to 0:22 for the gif to actually start.